Anyone with a bit of business nous knows where the next big economic power source is coming from- a rather generously populated nation in the Far East known as China. While economic recession has plagued the world over the past two years, Chinese start-ups have braved the tempestuous business waters in search of innovation and [...]

Yesterday saw the 10th anniversary of Nasdaq’s exuberant peak. Press abounded. Today, a decade ago, saw the start of it’s demise. Nasdaq is still less than half of its value at the peak. Yet its irrational exuberance created todays Web and tech titans. Amazon, Ebay, Yahoo, AOL, Salesforce.com, PayPal, Google and on. It triggered the broadband [...]

I remember my father teaching me about the economic cycle. It’s really simple, he told me. It goes like this. Every 5 years each economy experiences a cycle of boom to bust. That’s 5 years from peak to trough. It’s just gravity. As hard as economists and politicians try to find ways to smooth the [...]